Yup. The only other open source player I've found that can handle fx
radio is vlc from www.videolan.org. Despite the name, it's a pretty
cool program; it does way more than just video. Almost as nice as
foobar...it's a way smaller memory and CPU footprint anyway, and loads a
little faster. Also you can have multiple vlc's open without things
breaking badly, unlike foobar. But it's somewhat lacking in dsps; it's
got mostly the same dsp options as foobar, but something about the way
they implimented them causes them to sound like crap and not do things
in quite the way I would expect. Also they're located in a really
non-obvious place.
Patrick Perdue wrote:
So, hi everybody, and welcome to a very bored Borris.
Gee, this is starting to sound like an LJ post, but it's not, nor is
it even worthy of such. This, of course, is really saying a lot.
Anyway, my point today is to find the most inefficient way of doing
things, such as, for example, listening to FX Radio, something which
is rather easy to do, assuming you've got an AAC+ capable media
player. I've heard that foobar 0.8.3 doesn't know how to do channel
coupling, although the newer, inferior Foobar can play it. Oh well...
Anyhow, here's my really inefficient setup so far. Any suggestions are
welcome:
I've got a virtual machine installed on my main desktop running
Windows 2000.
Under this machine, I've connected to my VPN, which is on the other
ISP, and currently outside of my lan segment. This machine is running
Tor and Privoxy. So, through the VPN, I'm tuneling through Tor to a
remote machine somewhere. So, I have to go outside my network, across
to my other ISP, then from there to that machine's tor socks4, to a
remote machine. From this point, I could, for example, connect to
another VPN on my other ISP over the remote socks4, which would be
incredibly slow and bad.
Let's just leave that setp out for now.
After having done all this, I load up Winamp, set it's output to a
virtual audio cable, load up audio repeater, rout that virtual audio
cable to yet another virtual audio cable, load another instance of
vac, and rout the final audio cable back to the virtual Windows sound
card, which, in itself, is emulated, and then has to be routed back to
a physical output device, in this case my on-board Realtech card.
After having set all this up, I can connect to FX Radio, which is
originating from an old Compaq desktop that is less than a foot away
from me. As a result of all this pointlessness, a very large all that
for that situation has successfully been created.
I could have just loaded something tiny and little, but instead, I'm
using VMWare, which uses 300something mb of ram to host the guest
operating system, then running all this crap under that, through all
the bad stuff mentioned previously.
By the way, I'm writing this message under said virtual machine with
Outlook Express, a client which I absolutely hate. So, that should
tell you how bored I am.
Now I'm going to turn off the virtual file and printer sharing, and
purpousfully infect my virtual machine ith oads of viruses, just to
see what they do.
For anyone interested, I just got the following on my fake messenger
service:
Messenger Service
Message from SYSTEM to ERROR on 12/19/2006 11:49:49 AM
STOP!
Registry Scan Recommended
Please do the following:
1. Please visit http://www.regwinclean.com
2. Download Registry Cleaner
3. Install and scan system for critical errors.
4. Register and Clean all errors.
Failure to do so may result in system instability!
--
Samuel Proulx
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